[quote]Mr. Clean & Jerk wrote:
Personally, I find pictures like these incredibly inspiring…let me explain.
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For me, these pictures are vile and nauseating. I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
These pictures
- make me sick
- piss me off
Those hugely fat people just piss me off. I dunno why, but I can’t stand obese people. They could be the smartest people in the world, and I wouldn’t listen to a word they were saying.
We need a new habit where if you see some HUGE person eating a cake or something fried we just go up and slap it out of their fat grubby hands. maybe if we did that America would be better off.
I mean no wonder we are using up all of the worlds fossil fuels. All the fuel is going to:
- Cars having to lug around these fat asses
- The A/C that they have to crank up to keep from sweating all day
- That’s a few hundred more pounds a plane has to lift up in the air
- All of the pizza boys driving to give these people more lard
- I could go on but I’ll end my hateful rant here.
[quote]Yo Momma wrote:
Mr. Clean & Jerk wrote:
Personally, I find pictures like these incredibly inspiring…let me explain.
For me, these pictures are vile and nauseating. I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
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I like your avatar. That inspires me to go home tonight and pick up where I left off on “Subway to Venus.”
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
DANGIT! You left me hanging, what are your subtle self destructive tendencies!!!
Curse you Clean & Jerk!
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As of late? Leaving people in suspense, I suppose.
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
Mr. Clean & Jerk wrote:
Personally, I find pictures like these incredibly inspiring…let me explain.
EVERYONE has some kind of vice. For some it’s smoking, for some it’s gambling and for those in these pictures, it’s eating. These pictures are very helpful, as they give you a visual image of one who cannot control his or her habits and lets you see the disaster come to life.
Now that lets me think of my own self destructive tendencies. Though mine are a bit more subtle, they are most certainly taking their toll – as I type and you read, the demons of laziness and excessively negative thinking are lined up conga-style, and one by one, giving me a sharp, steel-toed boot to the noggin.
If my own bad modes of thought and action and their psycho-accumulative effect could somehow manifest themselves visually, what would they look like? A 550 lb. fantasy feeder? A burn victim? A slashed-up body? It brings to mind my own need for self-improvement and then all signs say, GO!
DANGIT! You left me hanging, what are your subtle self destructive tendencies!!!
Curse you Clean & Jerk!
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AAARGGGG!!
Tell us!
Is it being immensely attracted to other men with shiny bald heads??
[quote]Mr. Clean & Jerk wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
DANGIT! You left me hanging, what are your subtle self destructive tendencies!!!
Curse you Clean & Jerk!
As of late? Leaving people in suspense, I suppose.[/quote]
hahaha!
[quote]alsrnbsn wrote:
I used to be like that first picture…only not as large. I have lost 70 lbs through diet/exercise over the last 2.5 yrs and as a result, I have found that I am less tolerant of obese people. I have less and less sympathy for their “plight”.
I can only guess that it’s because I was in their shoes at one time and have changed my mindset, my paradigms, my body and my life! Oh, yeah, and I got off my big ass and worked!!! One of my biggest motivators was seeing all the huge patients come into my ICU that take 4 people just to roll over to change the sheets!
Granted, I’m not where I want to be yet, I’m still a work in progress, but I’m getting there with the help of this site![/quote]
I lost a great deal of fat a few years ago, and I too lost all sympathy for whining fat people.
It’s funny how, after you’ve lost a lot of fat, you realize that it’s truthfully not that hard to lose fat.
Compared to building muscle, it’s a cakewalk.
[quote]Mr. Clean & Jerk wrote:
I like your avatar. That inspires me to go home tonight and pick up where I left off on “Subway to Venus.”[/quote]
I thought most people would like to look up the ass end of my Fender.
“Life’s too short to be in a hole
So bust into your funkiest stroll.”
[quote]mikem395 wrote:
I went to the website. You have to be kidding me. I was hoping it was some kind of spoof website. This is the problem with people. They are too lazy to do anything and then they think they should have special rights because of it. [/quote]
I read some of the newsletters on their site. There were many pleas to stop “size discrimination” and to stop targeting obesity as an epidemic or a health threat. Every article ends with “Love your body just the way it is.”
Looks like most of our tax dollars and rising health insurance costs will be supporting a large population of unhealthy, obese people in the near future, unless we do something about it now.
Who am I gonna call? Fatbusters?
[quote]tGunslinger wrote:
It’s funny how, after you’ve lost a lot of fat, you realize that it’s truthfully not that hard to lose fat.
Compared to building muscle, it’s a cakewalk.[/quote]
Too true, too true.
[quote]Yo Momma wrote:
I read some of the newsletters on their site. There were many pleas to stop “size discrimination” and to stop targeting obesity as an epidemic or a health threat. Every article ends with “Love your body just the way it is.”
Looks like most of our tax dollars and rising health insurance costs will be supporting a large population of unhealthy, obese people in the near future, unless we do something about it now.
Who am I gonna call? Fatbusters?
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“Near future”? How about now?
[quote]rsg wrote:
tGunslinger wrote:
It’s funny how, after you’ve lost a lot of fat, you realize that it’s truthfully not that hard to lose fat.
Compared to building muscle, it’s a cakewalk.
Too true, too true.[/quote]
Strange, I noticed that too with ex-smokers. They’re all very intolerant of smokers. Maybe it comes from having walked the proverbial mile in their shoes and calling them on their rationalization?
[quote]Zen warrior wrote:
rsg wrote:
tGunslinger wrote:
It’s funny how, after you’ve lost a lot of fat, you realize that it’s truthfully not that hard to lose fat.
Compared to building muscle, it’s a cakewalk.
Too true, too true.
Strange, I noticed that too with ex-smokers. They’re all very intolerant of smokers. Maybe it comes from having walked the proverbial mile in their shoes and calling them on their rationalization?
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Yeah something like that. However I think personally for me it is more than that.
When you have gone through great lengths to change yourself so that you are healthier, and you are an asset to the people around you. Then along comes Joe “I don’t give a fuck” blow who does the same thing you used to do. Not only that but he is rude about it, and is a real thorn in your side. Then he claims you must tolerate this because he has a inability to change it. When in reality he is only justifying his weakness.
So not only did you have to go through a decent amount of sacrifice to get where you are, you have to help someone bear their unnecessary burden because they just don’t want to fix it.
It also takes a certain amount of self acceptance to be able to change anything about yourself. I struggled extensively with a low self esteem. It wasn’t until I somewhat fixed that, that I was able to even attempt to do anything else. When it comes to that I think NAAFA is right in accepting yourself the way you are. However they proclaim that as another reason to not change.
[quote]Xylene wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
Mr. Clean & Jerk wrote:
Personally, I find pictures like these incredibly inspiring…let me explain.
EVERYONE has some kind of vice. For some it’s smoking, for some it’s gambling and for those in these pictures, it’s eating. These pictures are very helpful, as they give you a visual image of one who cannot control his or her habits and lets you see the disaster come to life.
Now that lets me think of my own self destructive tendencies. Though mine are a bit more subtle, they are most certainly taking their toll – as I type and you read, the demons of laziness and excessively negative thinking are lined up conga-style, and one by one, giving me a sharp, steel-toed boot to the noggin.
If my own bad modes of thought and action and their psycho-accumulative effect could somehow manifest themselves visually, what would they look like? A 550 lb. fantasy feeder? A burn victim? A slashed-up body? It brings to mind my own need for self-improvement and then all signs say, GO!
DANGIT! You left me hanging, what are your subtle self destructive tendencies!!!
Curse you Clean & Jerk!
AAARGGGG!!
Tell us!
Is it being immensely attracted to other men with shiny bald heads??
:)[/quote]
There is nothing wrong with an attraction to shiny bald heads. Make of that statement what you will.
Personally, I think that if the government is going to be paying medical bills for overweight people (the younger generations of fast food junkies who, unlike many overweight older people, knew how bad what they were doing was for them), then they should also pitch for every bodybuilder’s PCT. Sound reasonable?
[quote]SwampThing wrote:
It also takes a certain amount of self acceptance to be able to change anything about yourself. I struggled extensively with a low self esteem. It wasn’t until I somewhat fixed that, that I was able to even attempt to do anything else. When it comes to that I think NAAFA is right in accepting yourself the way you are. However they proclaim that as another reason to not change.[/quote]
Stuff like this is why I’m on the fence about NAAFA.
On one hand, fat people are often discriminated against in ways that have nothing to do with physical size. Just read back at the ignorant ass “angry rant” where the poster claims something like “Even if they were the smartest person in the world I wouldnt listen to them.”
Seriously, consider how stupid, ignorant, and bigoted that is. What does someones intelligence in, say, math or science or literature have to do with how much adipose tissue they have?
Thus, I agree that fat people shouldn’t be discriminated against in such ways, they should be treated as “second class citizens”, etc.
But they far overshoot into the whole “its ok to be fat its healthy” bs.
The message should be “Fat people deserve respect AND should be working towards losing weight and becoming more healthy.”
[quote]Zen warrior wrote:
Strange, I noticed that too with ex-smokers. They’re all very intolerant of smokers. Maybe it comes from having walked the proverbial mile in their shoes and calling them on their rationalization?
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As an ex-smoker, I can say that most times I don’t really care when my other friends smoke - they all know the risks, but they admit that they just don’t care for the time being (because all young people are gonna live forever, you know).
The ones that bug me are the people who say they want to quit, but not bad enough to lay off the partying until they’ve established a solid base. Because I can tell you (and I don’t think I’m alone here), that when you start drinking, smoking becomes a ridiculously tempting addition to the party. I stopped drinking for weeks until I felt I could go out and drink without giving in to a smoke.
And don’t get me started on those “oh, I’m just a social smoker” tools. I’ve seen people go from “social smoking” to pack-a-days like you wouldn’t believe.
I could care less if someone smokes, it’s just insulting when they try to sugarcoat it.
[quote]CrewPierce wrote:
These pictures
- make me sick
- piss me off
Those hugely fat people just piss me off. I dunno why, but I can’t stand obese people. They could be the smartest people in the world, and I wouldn’t listen to a word they were saying.
We need a new habit where if you see some HUGE person eating a cake or something fried we just go up and slap it out of their fat grubby hands. maybe if we did that America would be better off.
I mean no wonder we are using up all of the worlds fossil fuels. All the fuel is going to:
- Cars having to lug around these fat asses
- The A/C that they have to crank up to keep from sweating all day
- That’s a few hundred more pounds a plane has to lift up in the air
- All of the pizza boys driving to give these people more lard
- I could go on but I’ll end my hateful rant here.[/quote]
Wow what a tool.
“They could be the smartest people in the world, and I wouldn’t listen to a word they were saying” Then go ahead and remain a biggoted moron not listening to a person giving perhaps very usefull information just because they are obese.
“We need a new habit where if you see some HUGE person eating a cake or something fried we just go up and slap it out of their fat grubby hands. maybe if we did that America would be better off.” Oh yea just what we need more physical assaults.
I mean no wonder we are using up all of the worlds fossil fuels. All the fuel is going to: Ahh the words of a TREE HUGGER 
Screw you hippy.
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Cars having to lug around these fat asses. Oh come on you dont drive a car ?
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The A/C that they have to crank up to keep from sweating all day. Guess no A/C neither ?
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That’s a few hundred more pounds a plane has to lift up in the air. So what they are always building bigger planes to carry MORE people.
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All of the pizza boys driving to give these people more lard. Guess no lard pizza for you huh.
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I could go on but I’ll end my hateful rant here. Good the smartest thing you said.
[quote]CappedAndPlanIt wrote:
The message should be “Fat people deserve respect AND should be working towards losing weight and becoming more healthy.”[/quote]
No. The message should be, “If you don’t respect yourself, don’t expect others to.”
[quote]unbending wrote:
CappedAndPlanIt wrote:
The message should be “Fat people deserve respect AND should be working towards losing weight and becoming more healthy.”
No. The message should be, “If you don’t respect yourself, don’t expect others to.”[/quote]
Riiight. So if I catch you coming from the gym, wearing crappy clothes, and decide that you “dont respect yourself” enough to dress presentably, I have reason to disrespect you, then?
If you have bad teeth, that gives me reason to, say, jump in front of you into a cab if you’ve clearly been waiting there first?
Do you think its ok to disrespect people who have minimum wage jobs (since they dont “respect themselves” enough to get something better)?
There are plenty examples I could think of that would indicate people not “respecting themselves” in various ways. None of them, including being overweight, justify me, you, or anyone else disrespecting them.